The Sims 2 Guide and FAQ

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5 Friends and Lovers:
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One of the biggest aspects the Sims was your Sims relationship with other Sim.
The same can be said for the Sims 2. Making friends and lovers is important for
a number of reasons. First it helps to satisfy the Social need of your Sim, and
second for all career paths require you to have some family friends in order to
be promoted.

  Note - The Sims 2 has kept up the daily and life scores feature that was
         introduced in the Making Magic Expansion pack.
         
The good thing about the Sims 2 is that it is vert easy to meet new people. In
the original game the only way to meet new people was for them to come around to
your house. Later with the expansions you were able to go to community lots to
meet you people.

The Sims 2 combines all of these aspects for meeting new people, plus has also
had a 2 new features added for meeting new people. This new feature is the Chat 
online option with the computer, and I have found this to be a very good way of
meeting people, as once you have chatted with someone 3 times you are able to 
invite them over. And in most cases they will come.

The other new way that you are able to meet people in the Sims 2 is that your
Sims will bring friends home work/school. This can be really useful to keep your
your Sims social up, but can also come at the wrong time.

  Note - In the Sims 2 there are a number of different levels of friendship.
         1 - Enemy
         2 - Friend
         3 - Best Friend
         4 - Crush
         5 - Go Steady (Teen Only)
         6 - Love
         7 - Engaged
         8 - Married/Joined